Gertrude Stein’s Experience of Expatriation and Settlement in <i>the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</i>

Abstract The article examines Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas , by Gertrude Stein. Filtered through the eyes her lover, text’s focus is on Stein’s artistic growth. Published in 1933 and written from “the happily distant perspective 1930s” (Benstock, 1986, p. 144), shows how Stein copes with isolation despair first years expatriation Paris. paper argues that was only able to perform in-depth acts self-analysis once she had settled down troubled subjective geography.